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A Better You
People who are neurodivergent have often learned from a very young age to hide themselves. But their relentless efforts to act and behave neurotypically can come at a heavy cost.

By Family First Contributors

Elevate
You don’t make a penny more or less than you’re supposed to. We hear this all the time, and yet and yet — it’s daunting to live by this knowledge.

By Family First Contributors

Encounters
A tiny shadow of a little girl. Standing. On the outside of the open windowpane. On the sill as narrow as a tea biscuit.

By Leah Wachsler

Family First Serial
There were no tears running down her cheeks, but she felt a cloud of sadness blocking the radiant San Francisco sunshine.

By Miriam Zakon

Family Reflections
Words have a huge impact on our emotional state

By Sarah Chana Radcliffe

Family First Feature
Play therapy. For Adults. While the image of a middle-aged woman playing with dolls may raise your eyebrows, some women say it changed their lives.

By Leah Wachsler

Family First Serial
“I see what Ta doesn’t, that there are a lot of very unhappy staff members right now, and he’s going to have a serious problem on his hands if something doesn’t get done soon.”

By Gila Arnold

Family First Inbox
I think one of the hardest nisyonos is watching your child struggle

By Family First Readers

Inside Israel
Under intense pressure from the US, Israel struggles to defeat Hamas and Hezbollah

By Kobi Borenstein

Serial
He waited for the forthcoming, “Isn’t it?” but there was only silence on the other end of the line. Which was strange because Ma was Daddy’s biggest fan.

By Ariella Schiller

The Rose Report
How can Trump be leading Biden when one out of every four voters in Republican primaries voted for someone else? Can the national polls be that far off, or are other factors at pl ...

By Binyamin Rose

Recipes
Looking for the perfect cookie that will please both young and old? Try these lemon zest biscuits! They’re sweet, yet with that lemony kick that’s sure to please everyone’s palate ...

By Chaya Surie Goldberger

Stopover
“We closed the store five weeks ago, at 4:15 on Friday, closed on Saturday, and started the best chapter of my life, which I believe is to celebrate Shabbat.”

By Sivan Rahav-Meir

Recipes
One of my favorite moments over Shavuos is the morning before the late-start meal, when we have more time to linger with a coffee and, of course, a coffee accompaniment

By Chanie Nayman